Kipchak

The term Kipchak or Kyptschak refers

• the Turkic people of the Cumans , also Kipchaks called
• According to some Turkish nationalists and Turkologists, an umbrella term for Khazars and Pechenegs or their descendants, who were displaced or assimilated by the Cumans and Turctatars and partly merged with them to form a mixed people or linguistic group , see also "northwestern language group" of the Turkic peoples
• by Meyers once on a Turkic people in the former Khanate of Kokand (between Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Northwest China), also Kaptschak called today a spokesman for the northern dialect of the Uzbek language
• to the Mongolian khanat of the Golden Horde , the majority of which were made up of Turkic peoples such as the Kipchaks subjugated by the Mongols
• on a sub-tribe of the Nogaier , who consider themselves descendants of the Golden Horde
• a city in Turkmenistan near the capital Ashgabat, see Gypjak

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.